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- 4901: Stereograms
- ... and adaptability. By allowing your eyes to relax, and blur....you attempt to overide your brain's intent, and allow both eyes to be equally dysfunctional. Thus, images begin to overlap and the muscles that control your eyes are less likely to fix at the same point that they normally would. The same people that have problems crossing their eyes, even a little, will have the greatest frustration when attempting to ...
- 4902: Violence and Sportsmanship in Sports
- ... ceases to exist, it will not bethe same game. Insofar as fighting is part of the show, we certainly sell it. We do not promote it.We tolerate it and we bring it under disciplinary control which we believe satisfies the public (Snyder201). Its better that the violence take place between two willing combatants such as in sports than ina situation involving spousal abuse where the majority of the times the ...
- 4903: Dante
- ... foreshadowing of what his future would be like if he did not change his lifestyle. He also speaks of being "sleepy" when he stayed of the path of goodness. This implies laziness and lack of control. He no longer consciously strove for righteousness and morality. He is lost in his dark slumber. After his journey, he comes out of hell and is able to see his life for what it is ...
- 4904: Cigars and Their Popularity
- ... come in contact with the tobacco, at this point, are the monitors who sweep up the debris and add it back to the hopper. Since machines are doing the work, there is very little quality control. Only one out of a thousand is checked (that's one cigarette out of fifty packs). Cigar smoke is savored and appreciated, while cigarette smoke is considered nasty and smelly. Cigar smoke is very heavy ...
- 4905: Davy Crockett
- ... you my child". He arose no more the backwoodsman or bear hunter, but the most amiable, independent and courageous man in the Tennessee legislature, and such he proved himself to be. His first, or original, gun is in Jefferson County and has been since 1806. His rifle "Betsy", presented by the Whigs of Philadelphia in 1834, is at Nashville, Tennessee. The tomahawk, or hatchet, presented in 1834 with a rifle, is ...
- 4906: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... Piano Trio (1944), and the Violin Concerto No. 1 (1947-48). Their dominating seriousness contributed to Shostakovich's second fall from official grace. When the Cold War began, the Soviet authorities sought to increase cultural control, demanding a "more accessible musical language" (Olkhovsky) than some composers were using. In Moscow in 1948, at what is a now notorious conference presided over by Andrey Zhdanov (a prominent Soviet theoretician), the leading figures ...
- 4907: Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
- ... the converts!" Surprisingly Goodman Brown steps forward. "He had no power to retreat one step, nor to resist, even in thought...". Goodman Brown at this point seems to be in a trance and he loses control of his body as he is unconsciously entering this service of converts to the devil. The leader of the service than addresses the crowd of converts in a disturbing manner. He informs them that all ...
- 4908: Child Stars: From Mozart to Gary Coleman
- ... his father stripped of legal guardianship) and Dominique Moceanu (who sued her father for squandering the winnings from her role of the 1996 US Olympic gymnastics team) demonstrate that precocious child stars are more in control of their lives than Mozart ever was at their age. The difference between the great composer and famous children today, of course, is one of quality. But parallels can be drawn between Mozart's struggle ...
- 4909: Without Men
- ... comprehensible that women will eventually be able to take on the role of presidency as they have other government positions. It is only a matter of time that this should happen. Once women advance and control these aspects of society, they will learn that they do not need men to survive. Imagine the world without men. Would the (female) human specie be able to continue dominating the Earth? Personally, I believe ...
- 4910: Dorothy Parker
- ... applied to the author herself (Bloom 2537). Her more bitter verses become brief ballads of animosity. This aspect is quite well demonstrated by the imagined injury of others in "Frustration:" 'If I had a shiny gun, I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks who give me pains; Or had I some poison gas, I could make the moments pass Bumping off a number ...
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